Fall 2009 Projects
- Institute learner's journal writing project for each of my classes. Online Journalism class contributes weekly to private Posterous site and is required to comment. Journalism Tools students learn how to use content management system to post their journals.
- Integrate mobile journalism module into JRNL 80 and JRNL 10; also entrepreneurship module.
- Invited speakers to Wednesday night NewsHub events monthly. David Matthison (Be the Media), Lou Young (WCBS TV).
- Inaugurate student peer-teaching seminars in NewsHub on social media, video editing.
- Share learnings more frequently via krochmal.posterous.com
- Increase frequency of multimedia usage from mobile and integration with Twitter, Facebook.
- Learn new Facebook functionality, create personal page as well as interest groups.
- Streamcast editorial board meetings of NassauNewsLive.com
- Streamcast classes for students unable to attend due to illness.
- New York 140conf Tweetup (October 2009) "Social Media in Journalism Higher Education."
- Tweet quoted on Poynter.org's Diversity at Work
- Interviewed for Newsday's LI colleges plan ahead for possible swine flu outbreak
Summer 2009 Projects
Research: Multimedia and Social Media on the Road (Using Facebook and Twitter and mobile reporting tools, documented 2,500-mile road trip to North Carolina, visiting smaller newspapers to talk about the state of community news.) See Storytlr.com post: On the Frontiers of Mobile/Social Media (July 28, 2009)
Published on Youtube: Social Media News (svideo conversations with Carmina Perez)
Published on Blip.tv: Social Media Week (weekly project covering social media)
- Proposed and delivered "Multimedia Journalism on a Budget" for National Convention of Hispanic Journalists, June 2009. (See slide deck for presentation here).
- Presented lecture to Columbia University Teachers College mobile phone learning class on "Journalism and Mobile Devices." Click here to view lecture.
Research: Multimedia and Social Media on the Road (Using Facebook and Twitter and mobile reporting tools, documented 2,500-mile road trip to North Carolina, visiting smaller newspapers to talk about the state of community news.) See Storytlr.com post: On the Frontiers of Mobile/Social Media (July 28, 2009)
Published on Youtube: Social Media News (svideo conversations with Carmina Perez)
Published on Blip.tv: Social Media Week (weekly project covering social media)
Spring 2009 Projects Page
Launched NassauNewsLive.com (February 2009)
Revised syllabus JRNL80, JRNL10. NassauNews Live team creation, with Timothy Robertson. CMS research, life streaming on http://krochmal.storytlr.com/, independent studies students, grad student final project, summer research.
Speaking engagements:
Joined Gordon Crovitz of Journalism Online, Stephen Arnold of Arnold IT, Myles Fuchs of Pressmart, and Jeff Bogard of Bogard Communications on iBreakfast Club's panel on Google and the Future of Newspapers.
Featured in articles:
Launched NassauNewsLive.com (February 2009)
Revised syllabus JRNL80, JRNL10. NassauNews Live team creation, with Timothy Robertson. CMS research, life streaming on http://krochmal.storytlr.com/, independent studies students, grad student final project, summer research.
Speaking engagements:
Joined Gordon Crovitz of Journalism Online, Stephen Arnold of Arnold IT, Myles Fuchs of Pressmart, and Jeff Bogard of Bogard Communications on iBreakfast Club's panel on Google and the Future of Newspapers.
Featured in articles:
- Journalism Education Where are the Innovators? Mario Garcia At Hofstra University: thinking new, thinking big in a small journalism department
- Mentioned in Poynter.org's Ask the Recruiter, in the post: Learn Digital Tools or Concepts?
US Presidential Election Coverage
January 2008 -- Editor, The Chronicle in New Hampshire, Student Samuel Rubenfeld Reports.
February 2008 -- Executive Producer, The Chronicle Reports Super Tuesday
August 2008 -- Editor, The Chronicle Reports the Conventions
Community Journalism
Nassau News. Executive Producer.
Twitter microblogging history.
Flickr.com photostream.
 My World http://www.google.com/profiles/Mo.Krochmal http://www.facebook.com/mo.krochmal http://krochmal.posterous.com/ http://krochmal.wordpress.com http://krochmal.tumblr.com Read a stream of technology|journalism|innovation|creative articles hand curated from the infosphere from my daily reading. @krochmal on Twitter My Hofstra Profile My CV Profile My Content *Multimedia Flickr (Altius2007) My Flickr photostream Groups: Fall '07 Online Journalism (47 members) Spring '08 Photojournalism (12 members) Photobucket.com Kaltura.com Jumpcut.com Vuvox.com SpinXpress *Livecasting Livestream.com Operator11.com UStream.com CoverItLive.com *Collaboration Zoho.com *Communication Skype: MMKrochmal *Social Twitter (Krochmal) Ning.com (Krochmal) Networks: Nassau News, AfterCMP, Wired Journalists LinkedIn (Mo Krochmal) Plaxo (Mo Krochmal) Naymz (Mo Krochmal) Facebook.com Spring Class Pages JRNL 80A (18 members) Admin -- Rich Forestano JRNL 80B (15 members) Admin -- By Brett Zoeller, JRNL 41 (12 members) Admin -- Jacqueline Hlavenka Groups -- NAHJ Region 2, Everyblock, Columbia University J School, Journalists and Facebook, Hofstra University. MySpace [not much to see, yet] Upcoming.Yahoo.com -- Events Skitch.com -- Screen grabs, graphics. Geotracking, Location-Based, Mobile. Dopplr -- http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/Krochmal Brightkite -- http://brightkite.com/people/Krochmal Outside.in http://outside.in/neighbors/krochmal Loki.com Navizon.com Mobile Blogging Utterz -- http://www.utterz.com/krochmal/profile ShoZu -- installed with an ugly advertisement. Sends pics to Facebook, Flickr by e-mail through 3G network. Live Blogging http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ www.snapfish.com/nassaunews Fall 2008 Projects Assignment Desk Prototype -- Creating a central repository for assignments for classes and news organizations at Hofstra. Staffed with students from Journalism Tools (JRNL 10) classes and led by upper-class journalism majors. The site is a combination of a data-entry portal and display system, wiki, and blog. Hofstra Journalism content management system -- Created a layered system of wikis and websites to allow each journalism class the ability to post to a central website. Hofstra Debates -- Created a system of live streaming and live blogging applications and a centralized workflow and personnel structure for monitoring and distributing information during the 2008 debates at Hofstra University. With graduate student Timothy Robertson, created an external debate wiki for collaborative sharing of information and an internal wiki for students to gather issue-related information. JRNL 80 websites and blogs and wikis and JRNL 10 websites and blogs and wiki. Spring 2008 projects -- Debut of JRNL 80 Final Projects on Nassau News (May 14, May 15) -- Debut of JRNL 80 Magcast (60 Minutes of Local News Video/articles) Students have built a hyperlocal article with edited video, text, photographs, links, and a memo detailing their work. The work will include community, and mobile elements. Entries (2) sent off for Hearst Multimedia Awards contest. Students did not win. JRNL 41 -- Students' Semester Portfolio Presentation Gallery Created Assignment Desk Website with RSS Feeds, Virtual Sharable Assignment Desk, Integration with iNews, Naming of Assignment Desk Editors for the Fall. Plans for launch of Nassau News Live. Invited Participant in Edelman's New Media in Academia Conference in Chicago in June. Preparation of Presidential Debate Coverage. Completed Projects Created Website to Archive Live Journalism Events in NewsHub (http://newshublive.synthasite.com)Streamcast NewsHub presentations by Steve Rubel (Edelman), David Friend (WCBS Ch. 2), and Journalism Ethics Panel. Produced team Twitter and Facebook coverage of presentations Instituted Coveritlive.com liveblog training for students. Produced Internet live streaming platform for students' presentations. | My Symbaloo Workpage My Magnify.net Video Aggregation Page My blogs newbiologyeconomy.com (molecular biology news blog -- inactive since 6-05) Blogger.com Profile Microblog Read widget above to keep up with my annotated daily readings as saved Krochmal.Tumblr.com Video Content Blip.tv Archives Krochmal.com (a relic from 2001 era) Rough archives Tumblr images Qik.com/krochmal (My live video channel -- Debut June 2008) New Qik.com/krochmal -- Live streaming from where I happen to be, when I happen to feel like it.
New -- Added Flixwagon for live streaming from my phone. http://flixwagon.com/krochmal
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